Pie-plate holder



E. B. JESSE.

I PIE PLATE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1916.

1, 35 1 387, v Patented Aug, 31,- 1920.

, I t Z momtoz 29. e/Esfe s as PIE-PLATE HOLDER.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 20, 1916. Serial Nb. 106,841.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EOLINE BALL JEssE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at I Nuttsville, in the county of Lancaster, State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Pie-Plate Holder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new and 118612111 pie-plate holder, and the object of the mvention is to provide a holder, consisting of an enlarged rectangular sheet metal plate having openings for the reception of pie plates, and provided with a downwardly extending flange, deep enough to hold the bottoms of said pie plates spaced from the oven grate Or the bottom of the oven, so that the heat will thoroughly circulate under the holder and said pie plates.

Another object of the invention is toprovide improved means for connecting the handles to the holder, in fact'to the flange, I

to prevent the handles from becoming too easily detached.

Another object of the invention is to provide improved means consisting of a depression in the holder adjacent each pie plate opening, to facilltate the removal of the pie plate.

In practical fields the detalls of construction may necessitate alterations, falling within the scope of what/ is claimed.

The-invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved holder constructed in accordance with the,

invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of line 3-3 of V ieferring more especially to the drawings, 1 designates a holder, which comprises an enlarged sheet metal plate having rounded corners, and provided with a flange 2, which extends about the fouredges of said plate and projects downwardly, and extends around said corners. The plate is provided with a plurality of openings 3, which are to be ofsuch diameters as to permit ofv the reception of the conventional form of ple plates 4:. The edge of each opening has a downwardly extending annular flange 5 which supports the pie plate, as shown in Fig. 2 clearly. Adjacent each opening, the plate of the holder is provided withya de- Patented AugrSi,

pression 6, for the reception of the hand, 5

to facilitate the removal of the pie plate,

that is, when the holder has been removed from the oven. It is to be noted that the flange 2 extends downwardly far enough, to support the bottoms of the pie plates away from the bottom of the oven or grate, thereby afiording a hot air or heat chamber 7, whlch constitutes means to permit the heat to thoroughly radiate under the bottoms of said pie plates, to expedite the baking of the pies. The holder is provided with oppo:

sitely arranged handles 8, each of which I consists of the sleeve 9' and the angle plates 10, between the outer ends" of which, the

sleeve 9 is secured by the rod 11 whose ends 5 1 are riveted, as shown, The inner portions Y of said angular members 10 are T-shaped, and these T-shaped portions are-securedon the inner face of'the' flange 2, while the portions 13 of said plates 10 pass through vertical slots 14: of the flange 2. These T- shaped portions 12 may be secured to the flange 2 by soldering orthe like, or riveted,

By this particular construction, the handles are more durable, and at the same time said T-shaped portions 12 act to strengthen or reinforce the flange 2.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is A pie plate holder formed from a single sheet of material, said holder comprising an enlarged body portion having its edges provided with depending marginal flanges, said 7 body plate having a plurality of pie plate receiving openings, the marginal edges of each pie plate receiving opening having a depending annular inwardly inclined flange,

said inclined flange being inclined at substantially the same inclination as the body 00' i of the pie plate, said body plate having depressions adjacent the sides of the pie plate opening and disposed at the inner edges of the openings, the pie plate opening flanges terminating at each side of the depression,

the depth of the depressions being the same 7 as the depth ofthe flanges of the pie plate In testimony whereof I have signed my 7 openings, thereby forming an engaging edge name to this specification in the presence of adapted to engage the slde of the ple plate, two snbscrlbmg vvltnesses.

said depressions forming means whereby EOLINE BALL JESSE. the hand may be placed in a position to WVitnesses: V v grasp the ple plates and remove them from L. GENEVIEVE BALL,

7 the body plate openings. 7 JAMES D. J EssE. 

